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- Subject: Re: Cable Bill Rip-off
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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:41:03 GMT
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- tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
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- >In article <adams.718479079@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>byrd@lucerne.rice.edu (Marc J Byrd) writes:
- >>
- >>>I think if I ran a cable company, I would stop carrying the networks, and
- >>>let people put in antennea to pick them up.
- >>
- >>My idea, exactly. Only you can't do this under this new law. The cable
- >>companies are covered by a 'must carry' regulation. Turner has already
- >>filed suit.
- >>
- >>That's the problem with this bill:
- >>
- >>1) Cable companies are REQUIRED to carry the network stations
- >>
- >>2) Cable companies are REQUIRED to pay the networks
- >
- >HUH??? I thought it was an either/or thing. Either the cable companies
- >rebroadcast the over-the-air stations and pay, or they don't carry the
- >ota stations at all. It was the OLD cable law which required cable
- >companies to carry the local stations.
- >
- >>The House and Senate are out of their minds.
- >
- >A summary of the bill was posted here recently. Anybody save it? I think
- >it should be reposted lest we start arguing over things which the law
- >may not even say.
- >
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- It has been pointed out to me that my understanding was wrong. That'll
- teach me to rely on the Chicago Tribune and the TV news...
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- -Steve
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